along the same lines, could rehabilitate be accepted for rehab? I have heard rehab used as a verb on occasion, for example "He'll be out for 2 weeks to rehab his injured ankle." In this case I believe it's short for rehabilitate instead of rehabilitation.

"Strange American games"? Really? Umpires are used in baseball (which is very popular in Asia as well as the Americas), tennis (which is pretty globally popular), and cricket (which is popular in British Commonwealth countries). There are also umpires as well as referees in (American) football. The two terms are not one and the same. Just because soccer doesn't have umpires doesn't make it a "strange American" term.

I am a Star Trek fanzine!
Data FTW!
I might be the only person who has ever said that. I felt weird.
But Data is awesome.
Spock is too.
But Data is awesomer.
I know it's not a word. Don't care.
Data is awesomest!

I've witnessed people saying zine instead of magazine often enough to be aware of this word, so I can assure you that this isn't something the quizmaster made up ;)
But "ump"... Just the mention of sports make me yawn, so for all I know, it could have been made up for the purpose of this quiz :D (that is what the referee is called in certain sports, right?)

ps we dont go to the gym ( that sounds so weird, you have gymclass as a kid at school)>> The place you go to work out is a sportschool.

We have the word gymnaseum as a (direction of) school. If you have latin and greek on your curriculum.
Btw all these words come from the same place and is a "school" where the ancient greek (besides learning) used to excercise, naked. It literally means, place to be naked.

Yeah, once somebody was reading aloud from a National Geographic thing, talking about a pharaoh who built something(this was a long time ago, so I don't remember the details) in some date A.D., and somebody else asked 'What's A.D. mean?' and they said 'after death', and now I look back and think how did I not catch that, it's so ridiculous! He can't build something after his own death!

I think there's a distinction between an abbreviation and a "shortened word". Lab for labour is just a written abbreviation; no-one would actually say "a lab politician". All the ones in the quiz are things people say as well as write (except possibly "ump", which I've never heard anywhere else).

Ha. Get 'em all....but it took a minute for "admin" cuz I kept thinking of college admin being the administration building....not administrator. Oh, well.....Oh, and zine was easy; rarely used but I've see it enough to know what it meant.

*mouth dropped to the floor emoji* almost noone knows what blog is ??? in this time that it is so common ( when blogs and the word for it first came into use I can understand. but now every 6 yo seems to blog or vlog ( videoblog... now you know that one too...)